2021 Suzie leaves Rachael Riley in the dust. Suzie's beauty comes from within and is natural. Rachael's appearance (beauty?) comes from the make-up and corsetry department.
This interview was the most wholesome thing I've watched in an age. The fact that Russel didn't push Susie to spill the tea on her tweets and had also very clearly prepared for the interview by looking up a bunch of words to speak about was chivalrous and endearing.
@@journalistTamaraPearson What they mean is that he really respected her instead of just chatting shit and trying to make headlines by making fun or trying to get something controversial.
Seriously, it's past time that Suzie was knighted, for services to lexicography and the English language. Hopefully they don't give her the disrespect of making it for services to broadcasting, which are a dime a dozen. And certainly Dame Susie Dent has the correct knightly ring to it, which is the most important qualification.
Suzie is not a weird crush at all. To quote Danny Dyer, she's Bang On. Also, the Australian Prime Minister comes up a lot because he is a shinning example of any insult you'd care to throw at him.
I stumbled upon a comment chain on this channel a while back full of disgruntled Australians making up increasingly creative insults for Scomo. It really is a national hobby.
Mr. Howard did an excellent job with this interview. Well prepared, interacted well with what his guest said, and quite charming and respectful in his comments and questions.
I like her. she’s smart and funny. that gets me every time. I’d definitely love to hang out and talk with her. I’ll bet I’d learn a lot, and I *love* learning new things.
@@MichelleVisageOnlyFans Not when we have people like Gemma Collins or Katie Price. I’d love to see a reality show with people like Susie, far more interesting.
I think we need to do away with this concept of "weird crush" because it's based on such a restrictive definition of what a "normal", i.e. socially acceptable crush is.
Scurryfunging - Wow, I didn’t know that was a word. For 40 years my Mom, Wife, and College Roommates all just called it “Jason Cleaning.” Also Thank You Susie! This is the first I’ve heard the good news in America that “Catsdown” may be coming back after the loss of Sean Lock.
I love all the work Susie does, and that she is THE person to go to - watching series 12 of Taskmaster last night ( - the 'do the opposite of not...not...not.not...) and they consulted with Susie re the right answer
They consulted with Susie about the wording of a task in the season with Richard Osman as well. The task was puttting balls onto the mat on the top of the hill.
Give Susie a job in the Ministry of Education, but not as a political appointment, but as Civil Servant, so they can not fire her, and put her in charge of English language learning. We would have a generation of gorms and ruthful people
@@Koreviking people often get fired because their boss feels threatened by their knowledge and intelligence. Especially in the civil service where it's more who you know, not what you can do, that gets one promoted - ie promoted beyond the level of ones incompetence.
I’d love to be (an obviously silent) guest at a dinner party with Susie and Stephen Fry. Both love the origins of words and I imagine could talk for hours and be fascinated by the knowledge of each other.
They both come back to the verb “to rue” (to pity or regret). Most familiar in the phrase “you’ll rue the day that…” To be “ruthless” means acting without any rueing: no pity or regret for what damage one’s actions are causing to others. Once there was the noun form “ruth” (something like “he displayed much ruth after his mistake”) but that has left the language completely, leaving “ruthless” hanging.
You know as an immature person, in school or whatever , a person such as this with these interests might have been completely ostracized but now I'm a grown man I find people who had an interest (really a vocation) the people I would like to know most , I was funny and disruptive in class . And amounted to fuck all . I would have loved now to be more mature then
So you've grown to realise that actually it's NOT 'cool' to be uneducated. And it's certainly not 'clever' to disrupt other's learning. That's good. I hope you pass that on to your kids, before it's too late. BTW - your teachers and fellow students who were trying to learn didn't think you were 'funny'.
Just a quick suggestion to the person who does Russ's videos, could you put the links to the persons podcasts and such who he interviews in the descriptions? I know it is me just being lazy, but I would love to listen to Susie's podcast and I am crap at looking them up, I can never find them on the service I use :(
Been watching Catsdown since the pandemic and love Sussie and knew she was on the show for 30 years but never actually saw and old clip of her. After 30 years she looks the same
@@notpostingx5035 if his wife gives him a 'free pass', it's fine. (She gets 1 too) It's not for you to dictate that everyone live by your narrow-minded 'rules of morality' - "mate". You probably consider a married person TALKING to someone of the opposite sex - without their 'other half' present - constitutes 'original sin'.
When I was at school, our English teacher tried to get us to stop swearing by telling us we could only use words that were in the dictionary. She regretted it when we found "bastard" in there
America has Tina Fey, in England, you have Susie Dent. Two incredibly smart and attractive women. What can be done to make them the next leaders of their countries?
Scurryfunging sounds exactly like an American practice. 👍👍👍👍👍 Susie is my hero. I went and looked up "funge," and apart from the fact that there is a newly coined (pun intended) usage for funge based on fungible (digital) assets, funge is a Latin root indicating "to perform an action," with the added sense of it being a "quick fix" kind of action. It's a perfect term.
Susie Dent : Goddess Beauty and Brains Blessing Your World with Intelligence so few are picking it up, reading books and learning words, it's all too much to cope
Because her beauty is natural and comes from within. True beauty is not just physical. It involves personality as well. Suzie will be just as gorgeous when she's 99.
Scurryfunging? I’m an American and I have never heard that word. I’m using it now though. I often have a friend call and say she is coming over and I have to scurryfung like crazy.
I have always had a crush on Susie Dent, over Rachel Riley, quite simply because I prefer brunettes. All my teenage years as well, I preferred Jacqueline Bisset, over Farrah Fawcett. And I thought Sophia Loren, was far sexier than Marilyn Monroe. So call it a weird crush if you like, I still prefer Susie.
I love how some of the guests make Russell drop his TV persona and reveal his true inner nerd.
Does Russell ever hide his inner nerd? He tells jokes about Lord of the Rings! He is a nerd-man-child. To me, that is his TV persona.
Weird crush? Nothing weird about it at all; she’s extremely crush-worthy
The only weird ones are the ones calling her a weird crush, she's one hundred percent bona fide crush material
@@BrotherChad plastic surgery
I'd like to put a 'dent' in that, nothing weird about it either?! 😏
@@ScotsmanGamer her legs as well? huuum do you have any source?
I know. I'm gay and I even have a crush on her!
Susie wasn't expecting that level of applause. Bless you. It's because everyone likes you.
I think she meant that she wasn't expecting the little tribute introduction video that she got.
What's not to like?!
It's not weird, Susie Dent is fucking gorgeous!
Yes, but 1990s Susie Dent would give Rachael Riley a solid run.
@@SidneyBroadshead A big Aye on that! I've never seen a young Susie Dent before so, WOW! Quite the looker!
I fancy Sandy Toksvig
2021 Suzie leaves Rachael Riley in the dust.
Suzie's beauty comes from within and is natural.
Rachael's appearance (beauty?) comes from the make-up and corsetry department.
Agreed 10000000%
This interview was the most wholesome thing I've watched in an age. The fact that Russel didn't push Susie to spill the tea on her tweets and had also very clearly prepared for the interview by looking up a bunch of words to speak about was chivalrous and endearing.
ah its a man's world when the dude is chivalrous just for doing his actual highly paid job
@@journalistTamaraPearson someone earns money! bad person!
@@journalistTamaraPearson What they mean is that he really respected her instead of just chatting shit and trying to make headlines by making fun or trying to get something controversial.
Seriously, it's past time that Suzie was knighted, for services to lexicography and the English language.
Hopefully they don't give her the disrespect of making it for services to broadcasting, which are a dime a dozen.
And certainly Dame Susie Dent has the correct knightly ring to it, which is the most important qualification.
This absolutely needs to happen, no doubt about it.
Dog knows, English language usage desperately needs some 'servicing'.
And Suzie is just the person to do it justice.
Suzie may correct you about being awarded a Damehood.
I think Susie is an totally understandable / normal crush!
As an MA in Linguistics, this woman is fascinating. Her books are well worth reading if you have an interest in the English language.
Suzie is not a weird crush at all. To quote Danny Dyer, she's Bang On.
Also, the Australian Prime Minister comes up a lot because he is a shinning example of any insult you'd care to throw at him.
Thank you. I agree with you on every point. I couldn't have written it better. Also, I would like to 'shin' the Australian Prime Minister.
I stumbled upon a comment chain on this channel a while back full of disgruntled Australians making up increasingly creative insults for Scomo.
It really is a national hobby.
@@cloud_appreciation_society Oh yeah check our #s for him on Twitter. Someone counted once, I think there were 100!
@@daniellamcgee4251 Lol, which one, they've been insufferable for yeaaaars!
@@RickReasonnz True!
Not only is Susie incredibly smart, extremely witty and absolutely hilarious she also looks better the older she gets.
same for Mr. Howard.
Susie is the best
Mr. Howard did an excellent job with this interview. Well prepared, interacted well with what his guest said, and quite charming and respectful in his comments and questions.
He's a great interviewer.
And I love his chairs....
I like her. she’s smart and funny. that gets me every time. I’d definitely love to hang out and talk with her. I’ll bet I’d learn a lot, and I *love* learning new things.
I don't think anyone can dislike Susie. It's simply impossible.
With only 3 thumbs down and 1k+ up so far, I think you are right
She had nothing to say about Boris Johnson
As a grumpy American who hates almost everyone,I adore her. (Russell,and the rest of the Cats crew aren't too bad either.)
Susie Dent should be far more celebrated than she is. I’d love to see her on TV more.
I think she's on there just the right amount of time!
@@MichelleVisageOnlyFans Not when we have people like Gemma Collins or Katie Price. I’d love to see a reality show with people like Susie, far more interesting.
She's on nearly every day????
@@tynebar I’m talking more prime time TV, not just for the grannies during the day.
@@cvwright And, as I said, she's on Every night (except Sunday, on prime time) and has been for months, and still is.
I think we are all guilty of scurryfunging! Susie Dent is a great role model and such a lovely person. We need more people like her on TV.
I think we need to do away with this concept of "weird crush" because it's based on such a restrictive definition of what a "normal", i.e. socially acceptable crush is.
Or maybe, its a case of not their usual type. I imagine Danny wouldn't normally date someone quite as smart as Suzie.
Or that it’s not based on “just” or “only” looks...
Susie is the kind of person we'd all like to have a nice long dinner with.
@Rain In July no.
@Rain In July 😂😂😂
@Rain In July Don’t flatter yourself. You have no chance with such a lady.
Yeah... Dinner... 😏
Fish supper?
Scurryfunging - Wow, I didn’t know that was a word. For 40 years my Mom, Wife, and College Roommates all just called it “Jason Cleaning.” Also Thank You Susie! This is the first I’ve heard the good news in America that “Catsdown” may be coming back after the loss of Sean Lock.
My sister is the absolute boss of the hidey-tidey, as we call it in Glasgow.
I love all the work Susie does, and that she is THE person to go to - watching series 12 of Taskmaster last night ( - the 'do the opposite of not...not...not.not...) and they consulted with Susie re the right answer
Not the first time they've consulted Susie Dent on Taskmaster!
They consulted with Susie about the wording of a task in the season with Richard Osman as well. The task was puttting balls onto the mat on the top of the hill.
@@Mubashir_AK Also the build a bridge task.
Give Susie a job in the Ministry of Education, but not as a political appointment, but as Civil Servant, so they can not fire her, and put her in charge of English language learning. We would have a generation of gorms and ruthful people
You can fire civil servants.
@@Koreviking yes i know, but civil servants fire civil servants not politicians. hence my point of "they" the politicians can not fire her.
@@danielwarren7110 Why would they fire her, though? Unless she was doing her job poorly, in which case they absolutely should.
@@Koreviking exactly but political appointments get changed so often because "just because" hence a civil servant
@@Koreviking people often get fired because their boss feels threatened by their knowledge and intelligence.
Especially in the civil service where it's more who you know, not what you can do, that gets one promoted - ie promoted beyond the level of ones incompetence.
Susie Dent is like an arms dealer for insults.
Well i would say she gives out more free samples than arms dealers do.
You could just say she's an insults dealer
Love Susie. Cats does countdown is one of my favorite shows.
She is gorgeous, pulchritudinous, junoesque, beauteous, boffo and telegenic. Love her and all her works.
All that and more.
Throw in knowledgeable and intelligent.
I think junoesque usually implies a but more of a fleshy beauty, like the old Roman statues. Susie is slim in a more modern aesthetic.
I've always wanted to see the more talkative side of Suzie, I feel we never get enough time with her on Count+Catdown. Loved it, she's delightful.
Susie is great! She's always so charming and funny and this was a great segment.
I love how Susie Dent was summarised as 'undoubtably one of the smartest people on TV'.
I love this woman!!!
Just a quick reminder people, she is 57! Honestly incedible!
I’d love to be (an obviously silent) guest at a dinner party with Susie and Stephen Fry. Both love the origins of words and I imagine could talk for hours and be fascinated by the knowledge of each other.
Or both would go "Yeah, I know" to everything the other says 😃
Put me down for a seat at that table.
Love Susie. Eloquent, intelligent, humorous and attractive.
I always wondered if you could ever be ruthful instead of ruthless. Now I know.
They both come back to the verb “to rue” (to pity or regret). Most familiar in the phrase “you’ll rue the day that…”
To be “ruthless” means acting without any rueing: no pity or regret for what damage one’s actions are causing to others.
Once there was the noun form “ruth” (something like “he displayed much ruth after his mistake”) but that has left the language completely, leaving “ruthless” hanging.
@@mitchblank Thanks for the extra info.
Two of my favorite people having a chat
Her vids explaining the derivations of swear words are brilliant! As was this interview! Looking forward to some new Catsdown
First time I’ve ever bought something after hearing it be promoted in an interview
Their books are great, check out the swearing series on C4 to hear her swear properly and explain the words
@@toxicara oh wicked. I never knew about that, I’ll certainly try that this evening. Thanks for the recommendation 🙂
@@brazygravy @Nick Carter Seconded. Thanks for the recommendation. I needed that in my life.
Always a pleasure seeing Susie on shows and because she's always so composed, it's great when you see her lose it on Catsdown.
I love our Susie. Beautiful and smart. What's not to like?
And can rock a pair of combat boots and a dress!
Natural beauty AND brains.
An unbeatable combo.
You know as an immature person, in school or whatever , a person such as this with these interests might have been completely ostracized but now I'm a grown man I find people who had an interest (really a vocation) the people I would like to know most , I was funny and disruptive in class . And amounted to fuck all . I would have loved now to be more mature then
So you've grown to realise that actually it's NOT 'cool' to be uneducated.
And it's certainly not 'clever' to disrupt other's learning.
That's good.
I hope you pass that on to your kids, before it's too late.
BTW - your teachers and fellow students who were trying to learn didn't think you were 'funny'.
Just a quick suggestion to the person who does Russ's videos,
could you put the links to the persons podcasts and such who he interviews in the descriptions?
I know it is me just being lazy, but I would love to listen to Susie's podcast and I am crap at looking them up, I can never find them on the service I use :(
Susie is brilliant! Not willingly controversial just armed with a sharp wit and funny beyond her reality
Wow this was amazing love how they vibed they had so much chemistry
Can’t help thinking how much better the world would be if we had a few million more susie dents.
Been watching Catsdown since the pandemic and love Sussie and knew she was on the show for 30 years but never actually saw and old clip of her. After 30 years she looks the same
Susie is iconic, true British legend
When he said she’s been on the show almost 30 years I had to look up her age cause omg she does not look almost 60! Tf?!
Susie used to keep dog treats under her desk for my mate's guide-dog called Bruce.
I live in the USA now, but I'm English born and bred Love words and Susie Dent and her pure enjoyment of words and the stories she has.
I've been married 20 yrs and Susie has always been my " Free Pass" ,, brains and damn cute.
Perfect night of wine and the Thesaurus
There’s no free pass focus on your wife mate
'Thesaurus'. So that's what it's called these days?!
(What? No food?!)
@@notpostingx5035 if his wife gives him a 'free pass', it's fine. (She gets 1 too)
It's not for you to dictate that everyone live by your narrow-minded 'rules of morality' - "mate".
You probably consider a married person TALKING to someone of the opposite sex - without their 'other half' present - constitutes 'original sin'.
@@trueaussie9230 yes if the wife is fine with it it’s okay
@@trueaussie9230 also I don’t think having friends of the opposite gender when ur in a relationship is bad
No, not only Danny would do that, actually. Henning Wehn did it too.
He didn't actually attempt a pronunciation, though.
@@qwertyTRiG ah. My bad
Susie is hotter than Rachel. 😍
I said what I said.
Agreed.
absolutely
That's the menopause for you.
They're both actual crushes to me really though.
Yup. Rachel can't hold a candle to Susie.
When I was at school, our English teacher tried to get us to stop swearing by telling us we could only use words that were in the dictionary. She regretted it when we found "bastard" in there
When my brother was about 4 he sat back at the end of a meal and said 'ìm grunted '❤
Susie dent should be what we should encourage our young girls to aspire to be!
This video needs a "Susie Dent wearing Doc Martens" warning.
You can't just spring that on a person!
Susie has always been my crush and it's never been weird.
Oh, Susie, you'll never know how much I needed to be introduced to the word scurryfunging.
I've never seen her legs, also it wasn‘t Danny trying to pronounce all 9 letters on her paper. It was Henning Wehn.
Always a delight
I could listen to Susie talk to me about the entirety of the English language for hours on end.
Can you please post the full episode 9? Thank you!
Just adore her. Not a weird crush, or unusual crush etc etc… just wonderful.
America has Tina Fey, in England, you have Susie Dent. Two incredibly smart and attractive women. What can be done to make them the next leaders of their countries?
What lovely lady is our Suzie! Intelligent, Elegant and pretty! The complete package! Russell obviously has a lot of respect for that lady, as do I.
"Even im gettin a semi" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Also a legend for just letting Jimmy Carr’s insults go, the glory hole one in particular, and saving a savage blow for later.
Suzi Dent is Definitely on my crush list!
Fascinating!
Scurryfunging sounds exactly like an American practice. 👍👍👍👍👍
Susie is my hero. I went and looked up "funge," and apart from the fact that there is a newly coined (pun intended) usage for funge based on fungible (digital) assets, funge is a Latin root indicating "to perform an action," with the added sense of it being a "quick fix" kind of action.
It's a perfect term.
I've been looking for a word to describe our MP, "catchfart" will do nicely.
Susie Dent : Goddess Beauty and Brains Blessing Your World with Intelligence
so few are picking it up, reading books and learning words, it's all too much to cope
Learning helps me stay sane.
She's a female Stephen Fry. A national treasure to be sure.
Turns out that ‘Catchfart’ tweet of Dent’s was about most of Parliament (but predominantly the tories of course) 😂😂😂
62 yrs old American and have NEVER heard the word "scurry-funging". So, Ms Dent, where's Arthur?" lol
HOW IS SHE 57?!
Very good genes, very good work done, or both. But whatever it is, she's SMASHING, looks or no looks😍
She was born 57+ years ago.
You see, we tend percieve time linearly and measure it in Earth rotations of the sun. We call those years.
I remember that explanation of fart as a child!!! Great guest!
I’d love to hear her say something about the use of “undoubtably” in his intro.
That actually went quickly. I was surprised it had already been 9 1/2 minutes. Jimmy is wrong; Susie isn't at all boring.
Susie is beautiful, nothing weird about finding her attractive.
Physical attributes decline and pass but linguistic eloquence can survive the centuries. Susie, you're a blessing
How has she managed to stay sooo hot after so many years. She's a goddess...
Because her beauty is natural and comes from within.
True beauty is not just physical.
It involves personality as well.
Suzie will be just as gorgeous when she's 99.
audience is dead silent listening intently and seriously to Susie Dent. Respect.
This interview has made me very gruntled.
She just destroyed Michael McIntyre’s sketch about words such as Disgruntled and ruthless! 😂
Nah, it's still comedic.
@@lisab9541 Watch him on the Graham Norton show do that piece, it's hilarious with Rosamund Pike and Chris Martin.
"The Australian Prime Minister comes up a lot " catchfart
How is this woman not a Dame yet?
I love Susie, she is a keeper.
Scurryfunging? I’m an American and I have never heard that word. I’m using it now though. I often have a friend call and say she is coming over and I have to scurryfung like crazy.
I think it would be 'scurryfungE', to make the hard 'g'.
Lol I'm an American and I've never heard the word 'scurry-funging' before. But when I hear the definition, it's definitely a thing, Haha
She is awesome .
Suzie needs an app with word of the day etc. I'd buy it.
Bloviate - When your engine is knackered 😂
I have always had a crush on Susie Dent, over Rachel Riley, quite simply because I prefer brunettes. All my teenage years as well, I preferred Jacqueline Bisset, over Farrah Fawcett. And I thought Sophia Loren, was far sexier than Marilyn Monroe. So call it a weird crush if you like, I still prefer Susie.
Huge fan of Susie Dent (and Russell Howard) :D
Love Susie Dent❤❤
Brains, class and beauty. A triple threat.
8:32 and Russell does his best Boris impression 😂😂
She'd be a great English teacher.
I hate it when they call people to plug their stuff... But for Susie Dent, I'd make an exception 😀😁
She is fantastic 😍👍
Susie is simply and absolutely lovely...